N/A: Again I do NOT own Naruto just part of this plot (the one I made up) and Amaya along with her village and her….. wellll seeing as you haven't gotten there yet you'll just have to wait and see

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The feeling of cold liquid being forced down her throat ripped Amaya from unconscious state and she struck out frantically, hitting flesh, and rolling away before opening her eyes. Two shocked men with the same weird headband she'd seen earlier knelt opposite me, a spilt water canister lying on its side.

Where was she?

The village?

No… her gaze swept the surrounding area and panic leapt through her. Trees, she was surrounded by trees. There was no village in sight. No sign of any other human life other than the three of us. Amaya's heart began to pound as she looked up at the hulking figures. Never had she been so close to… she reached out with a trembling hand brushed a curious fingertip over the brown part of the tree before quickly snatching her hand back and gazing at the spot she had touched with wide eyes. The tree had been… rough to touch.

Why?

Someone cleared their throat and she whipped her head around to find the two men holding their hands up in a slightly unthreatening pose.

"Don't be afraid, we brought you here to care for you, you need to drink some water so you can get better." One said. she tilted my head to the side as she identified his voice. He'd had been the one who'd been called Sasaki by the other one. He reached down slowly to pick up the canister before extending it towards me in the same cautious momentum. Amaya stared at him. He was offering her water? When she didn't take it he brought it closer to his body and frowned. "It's not poisoned. Here, I'll take a sip-" he brought the canister to his lips and swallowed once before bringing it back down, "-see? Perfectly safe." He extended it again towards her. Was he crazy? He was offering her the same canister he'd drunk from? She'd always been given a bowl of somewhat greenish water that no one else would touch. Was it a trick? Amaya went to refuse but the back of her throat was so dry… she gazed longingly at the canister.

With a quick motion she snatched the water and put it to her mouth immediately-so if it was a trick she'd at least get some water down- and swallowed. Clean, fresh liquid washed over her tongue and she paused to look at the canister in wonder. The other sip forced down her throat hadn't been a delusional fantasy! 'This water'... she poured a little out onto her hand and watched in awe as the clear droplets gathered together. 'It's clean!' With a sudden excitement she put the thing to her lips and swallowed again and again, just reveling in the feeling of such stuff dropping into her stomach. When it had run dry she let it drop to the ground and wiped an arm over her mouth; just a cup of that would be enough to make her agree to no food for a few weeks!

There was a slight scuffing sound and she looked over to see Sasaki pick up the container and chuckle. "She must've been thirsty, she drank it all."

Oh no! Amaya scuttled back away from them, eyes of blue wide. She hadn't meant to drink it all! It had just tasted so good!

Catching her movement the man held up his hands again and cooed softly. "Hey, hey, hey! We're not going to hurt you for that. Come over here, I'm sure you're hungry right? Can you speak?"

Speak? She nodded slowly. She believed she could speak. It had been a long time but Amaya used to converse with her conquerors from time to time. Experimentally, she opened her mouth and surprised herself when a little noise came out. Yes, Amaya was sure she could speak. "I-I am, very hungry." she got out.

He grinned and patted a patch of grass besides him. "C'mon then, I have some rations you can eat." Amaya suspiciously eyed the spot then scooted over besides him, seeing him as less of a threat since the water. A plump ball of rice was placed in her hands and she immediately broke off a corner piece before trying to give the other part back to him.

He declined with a shake of his head. "No, no. This is for you, eat up, I've got my own here- see?" he held up another and Amaya shrugged, this time not planning to protest when the man gave her more.

"Tha-thank you." she said after she finished three balls of delicious rice and a piece of fish.

Sasaki beamed. "You're welcome. Do you have any questions I can answer while we wait for Kakashi to get back?

Amaya frowned, looking from Sasaki to the nameless one and back. "Kakashi?" she asked.

"He's the one who saved you from getting hit by that hammer earlier," he said. His brown eyes flicked back to her. "Why were you being attacked by that brute anyways? You're only around twelve- you could've been killed!"

"Ten" She supplied absently, then shook her head. "I've been hit by worse."

His eyebrows rose. "Worse than a hammer double your size?"

She nodded. "Challenges like that happen around twice a month for me. They usually beat me bloody afterwards."

The guy that had stayed quiet till now gaped. "Why were you doing that? Isn't the village taking care of you!"

"I'm seen as a Devil in the village, I've been living in the house on the edge of the village now for seven years and I only see sunlight when the men challenge me." Amaya shook her head. "when I face the men it is fixed, I can't win in a fight with no proper nourishment, my wrists shackled, and my powers bound." She gazed over at the trees. "This is the first time I've been able to touch one…" she murmured. "It's so strange being away from my hut."

A movement to her left triggered all of her instincts again and Amaya looked back to see Sasaki lying back on the leaves with a smile. "Well you're not going to go back There, so you'll have plenty of new experiences. And our village is completely surrounded by trees bigger than this. You'll like it there I think. There are kids your age running all over and the Hokage is kind and fair, you'll probably get adopted by one of the family's living there, maybe a ninja one and perhaps you'll even attend the academy-" He opened one eye and looked up at her speculatively. "Hey, when you said your 'powers were bound', what were you talking about?"

She looked away and crossed hermy arms, a tremble scurrying up her spine. Could she tell them? Would they lock her in a house like the former or somewhere worse? They said that they wouldn't, but… Amaya's eyes fell to the scare on her right hand. "I-I have energy that I can use when I want to… I've heard that there are others like me but it was the color of the energy that got me locked in the house. They called it my gift from the devil." There! She had said it- she bit her lip and twisted her fingers together- Amaya hoped it was the right choice.

Seconds passed and no one said a word; only the birds flitting about the foliage dared to break the silence with their song.

Hesitantly, she tilted her head to look back at the two. Had she read them wrong? 'Are they already reaching for the knives?' she thought nervously. Her eyes slid across the terrain with a sudden reluctance as a knot formed in her stomach from regret and fear. Perhaps she should start—

Her mouth dropped open in shock. They were Laughing!

Seeing the emotion stained upon her face Sasaki chuckled slightly and covered his mouth. "Sorry, sorry, it's just that it's perfect!" she gave them a confused look. "Well, you see, you're able to release chakra and we're ninja so…" Her look got even more confused.

"Sasaki," the quiet one sputtered out between laughs. "I think you need to explain the system to her. After all, she probably has never heard of our village let alone ninja!"

Nodding his agreement, Sasaki sat up and turned to face her so a foot and a half of ground separated them then wiped away the stray leaves and twigs littering the space. "There are certain villages scattered around whose main purpose and business is to train ninja for hire and protection." He began, grabbing a long stick and putting it to the dirt to draw five different symbols. "The five main ones are the Village Hidden in the Clouds, the Village Hidden in the Mist, the Village hidden in the Rocks, the Village Hidden in the Sand and -us- the Village Hidden Leaves." She peered curiously at what he was drawing and frowned.

'Is this…writing?' she thought pensively. Her mind flicked back to the symbols on her shackles and she carefully compared them. They seemed to be similar, but there was a different number of lines… 'How can people understand such things?' Even when she squinted she couldn't seem to figure out what they meant in any way. 'Maybe they're not finished…'

"See? Then there are the kages of each village each having a different title to match the villages name- like ours is the Hokage and the Sands' is the Kazkage. We-" Sasaki was cut off as a white haired man with most of his face covered plummeted to the ground mere feet from them, causing Amaya to flinch back slightly.

Not even looking up from his drawing Sasaki switched his attentions to the newly arrived ninja. "Hey Kakashi- what's with the showy entrance?"

"We need to get going, the missions over and the faster we get back to the Village the faster she," He gestured to Amaya, "can get real clothes and the medical Ninja can take a look at her." His eye flicked to the ninja next to Sasaki. "Kaito, go scout a route to the Village. I'll send a message through Punken and let the Hokage know we've picked up a new addition to the Leaf Village civilian population-"

"Ninja." Sasaki interjected.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Ninja?" he repeated, "She's able to manipulate chakra?"

Adding a sweeping curve to a symbol Sasaki set the stick aside and looked up to meet his team leaders' gaze. "She says she has a certain energy that got her locked away. I haven't seen it yet, but a ninja would be have to completely untalented not to sense the buzzing in her." He shrugged, "If she's not considered ninja material I'm not either.

"Is that true?" Kakashi asked. Amaya shivered as his eye came to rest on her. 'He has power.' She thought nervously, 'More so than these two combined.' Looking up to meet his gaze she swallowed hard and clenched her hands as she felt her eye color start to change, giving her blue eyes a peculiar sheen.

"I-I was locked in the house because of my energy-" she glanced at Sasaki and corrected herself "-chakra color." she muttered faintly. "I'm not sure about what else you are talking about."

For a few minutes they stared at each other, neither moving, neither speaking, each one just observing and measuring the other with guarded eyes. A slight breeze blew through the trees, caressing Amaya's face with tender fingers and Kakashi finally looked away.

"Take her behind Kaito and make sure she doesn't pass out, okay?" Kakashi said, turning to face the other direction. Amaya stayed where she was, watching the peculiar 'ninja' trying to see past his cool façade. Sasaki placed a hand on her arm and she glanced up at him.

"C'mon, I can carry you if you're too tired-"

Too tired? She'd been through worse than what they had witnessed today and still had enough strength to do at least a hundred of the handstand push-ups she indulged in to keep from going completely insane.

Insulted by his words, she stood up silently and brushed past him to follow the path from Kaito she could still sense. No way would she put up with being slighted from a ninja that didn't know the meaning of tired.

"Hey- wait!" Sasaki called, watching the young girl they'd rescued start off surprisingly in the right direction with a stiff back and angry aura. "You don't know where you're going!" As if his words made her fury greater she jumped into the trees and sped off with an agility that almost surpassed most ninja. He chuckled slightly, if she still had an attitude after all the years of abuse she'd endured she'd be okay. A little untrusting, but okay to go on.

"Kakashi-" he turned to face the legendary Copy Ninja but stopped at his look.

"She's not a lost puppy Sasaki," Kakashi warned, "If anything she's a dog that's been beat too hard. You can't go expecting her to adapt right into village life."

Sasaki took a step back, shocked at his leaders words. "But I didn't say anything about expecting her to adapt right away-"

"I saw the look in your eyes," Kakashi cut in, "You've always had a soft spot for the children." His eye softened a bit but he didn't stop. "Even children can be killers, Sasaki- I've had to dispose of a few dangerous ones that would've set the world on fire if given half the chance. It's our job not to hesitate, to take out any potential threats to the village presented to us; and this girl-"

"Is a hurt child in need of our teachings and protection!" Sasaki snapped, brown eyes flashing. "She's been locked up in a house and beaten for seven years Kakashi, by the same people who were supposed to watch over and keep her from harm! We can't just let her suffer! We can't just kill her for being different!"

"So we should put everyone in the village in danger?" Kakashi murmured.

A breath of wind whipped through the trees, cutting between the two as the held each other's gaze, Kakashi's words ringing through Sasaki's ears.

Kakashi looked away towards the way Kaito and the girl had gone. "I respect your morals, Sasaki. It's honorable that you would want to shelter this girl, but life is hard- the ninja way even harder- if she's to successfully live our style of life… it's not a thing you can succeed in while being sheltered. She's going to have choices to make- choices you can't make for her. I suggest that when we return to the village you stay away from her, for both of your well beings. Spend some time with your wife, take a mission to another village so you can clear your head, I don't care, but you need to. Because Sasaki, if she makes the wrong choice, if she makes a choice that endangers the village-" He turned back to face Sasaki, and pushed up the forehead protector to expose his left eye "-I'll do what I have to, to protect the people I care about and I'll do the same to you if you move to shelter her from harm."

Sasaki felt his mouth go dry and a shiver shimmy down his spine as he stared, transfixed at the famous sharringan. Then he broke eye contact and turned away, prepared to jump into the trees. Paused. "You might think I'm foolish for caring- but you'd do the same for that nine-tails kid on your team. When you turn out wrong about Her nature I hope you apologize to her." He sprang into the trees and chased after the two already on their way to Konoha.

Pulling his forehead protector back down Kakashi sighed and turned to look the direction of the Girl's village. It wasn't that he wanted the girl to become a threat. She'd seemed to have a good head on her shoulders, a good will to survive that would make her an excellent ninja. But what the Elder had said when Sasaki had taken her to the forest…

"How can you even call yourselves men!" Kakashi had demanded when the man had proceeded to threaten him for the girl. "You beat up little girls for fun to call yourselves warriors! I've only met a few people I'd refer to as absolute scum, but you've made it onto my list." Cries of outrage had shaken the village and fierce shouts for his head.

The elder had lifted up a hand to silence them and turned to Kakashi. "You do not know what that girl is capable of, so you have no right to speak. She's a menace. A monster. She holds a power so great that when she was a mere infant and her mother was killed in the nearby forest she wiped out half the village with Chakra so black it was as if the darkness within her soul was leaking into the world to take vengeance! We tried to forget what she'd done. One of the family's in the village took her in and we tried to let her live as a normal child, but her power came forth again, not a year later when a young kid her elder by one year accidently shot a training arrow her way. Her eyes had gone silver and her face had contorted in a manner of fury such as I have never seen. If one of the older kids hadn't been around to knock her out with a stone she would've killed the boy who'd made a simple mistake." The old man had glared at Kakashi, "We attempted to get help- restraining the girl to a house while we called for it- but when the man traveled to see her and entered the house we barely waited scarcely an hours' time before she had somehow broken the seals we'd placed on her and attacked him. We are the ones saving the world from a fate of Death! If you wish to take her from here it will only bring everyone near that Devil spawn horror and sorrow!"

Kakashi shook his head to clear it from the memory. It seemed absurd- the claim that the young girl could be capable of such feats… but he'd seen Naruto become pretty scary himself. Could it be possible that this girl, who wasn't even carrying a Demon within her, had power enough to match Konoha's number one most unpredictable ninja?

He had a lot to discuss with the Hokage, especially if She was going to become a ninja- he doubted she'd be in the Academy for long even if she didn't know the basics.

'Another complicated ninja,' Kakashi thought tiredly, quickly making a few hand signs before biting his thumb and pressing it to the ground. A puff of white smoke rose up and a small brown dog with a slightly squished face blinked up at him. "Hey, Kakashi."

"Punken, I need you to get to the village as fast as you can and tell the Hokage that our mission was a success but we're bringing back a potentially dangerous rescued girl that needs medical attention immediately."

"Right!" the dog saluted him then turned and darted off into the trees.

'This is either going to turn out really bad or really good for the village.'

N/A: ahhhh wasn't that refreshing? I thought so and I hope you enjoyed the beginning of this story… next chapter coming soon so keep reading!